5 Steps To Create A Successful Container Vegetable Garden

Jun 7, 2018 | Container Gardening, Garden How-Tos, Vegetable Gardening

In today’s blog post we will learn how to set up a container garden easily. You can easily setup your container garden complete with pots, saucers and drip irrigation lines. We will learn how to easily set up your container vegetable garden and plant some vegetables in your pots. STEPS We begin with the layout of our containers. We then move on to the choice of potting soil or potting mix you need to use for your container garden. We then set up a main drip irrigation line to water the pots or containers and finally we plant some vegetable plants in the containers garden
Container Garden

Container Garden

WHAT YOU NEED. We will be using resin based wine barrels and using them as containers. Resin is very resistant to the elements and will last for many years. Its also safe to grow fruits and vegetables in.
Resin Wine Barrel Planter

Resin Wine Barrel Planter

For the soil mix you can use a bagged potting mix or make your own potting mix using peat moss/coco coir, perlite/vermiculite?and compost/worm castings.
Miracle Gro Organic Potting Soil

Miracle Gro Organic Potting Soil

For setting up the drip irrigation line we are using half inch drip tube as the main line and quarter inch tubing as the emitter line. We are using the fan bubble emitter. This provides great coverage while being inexpensive.
Drip Irrigation For Containers

Drip Irrigation For Containers

Finally we plant our vegetables in the containers or pots we have for a wonderful vegetable garden which will last for many years.Watch our detailed video on How to Set up A Container Vegetable Garden for all the details: A container garden will expand your growing area and will give you lots of space for you to grow your fruits, vegetables and herbs. Happy Gardening!

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